Про рабочие нагрузки.

По статистике журнала вчерашний пост про смертность от переработок в Китае вызвал определенный интерес, поэтому решил поделиться данными по объемам рабочего времени, которое учеными считается "условно безопасным".

Во-первых, можно рекомендовать исследование Австралийского национального университета

People who work more than 39 hours a week are putting their health at risk, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found.

The research shows the work limit for a healthy life should be set at 39 hours a week instead of the 48-hour-week limit set internationally about 80 years ago.

Lead researcher Dr Huong Dinh from the ANU Research School of Population Health said about two in three Australians in full-time employment worked more than 40 hours a week, with long hours a bigger problem for women who do more unpaid work at home.

Во-вторых, есть исследования ученых из Великобритании (не путать с британскими учеными) по поводу рабочей нагрузки - Working more than 55 hours a week is bad for you–in many ways

Last week, a study published in the British medical journal the Lancet had an alarming warning for people who work more than 55 hours a week: They appear to have a 33 percent higher risk of stroke than those toiling a more sane 35 to 40 hours each week, and a 13 percent increased risk of coronary heart disease, too.

В-третьих, есть еще довольно старый отчет The Productivity of Working Hours, выпущенный совместным американо-немецким коллективом из Института по исследованию трудовых отношений (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), с которым тоже будет интересно познакомиться для расширения кругозора.

Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply functions are taken up. The findings also link up with current research on the effects of long working hours on accidents and injuries.